Example sentences of "[subord] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , one large contract caterer in a northern city with a high unemployment rate , whose casuals consisted almost entirely of otherwise unemployed people , estimated that as many as four times the number of people passed through its list of those available for casual work in the course of a year than were on that list at any one point in time . |
| 2 | He argued that ‘ experience is teaching us that medicine can keep some elderly people alive for longer than is of any benefit to them . ’ |
| 3 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | In books dealing with the more spiritual aspects of man , the levels are often portrayed as being outside each other , each ascending level being larger than the one below , as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 5 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 6 | Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest . |
| 7 | They held such things as power and government as being of little importance . |
| 8 | abour nationally launching its final push before Thursday polls , dismissed Mr Winmills defection as being of little consequence . |
| 9 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 10 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 11 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 12 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |
| 13 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 14 | A pain conceived of as being in another body is not yet conceived of as hurting another person . |
| 15 | For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place . |
| 16 | Ryle asks , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ 'in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ |
| 17 | Sleep had always been regarded as being in some way analogous to death ; the hypnotic trance was seen as having aspects of both conditions . |
| 18 | The vast majority of such experiences can easily be interpreted in terms of orthodox science — usually statistics : most people , including myself , have only a hazy understanding of the workings of probability , and so perfectly commonplace coincidences seem to be outrageously improbable , and are therefore viewed as being in some way paranormal . |
| 19 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 20 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 21 | If we regard stateless tribal societies as being in some measure representative of very early human societies , we can then ask what causes have brought the state into existence and assured its further development . |
| 22 | The 1986 Act views the appointment of an administrative receiver as being in some respects similar to insolvency proceedings and regulates it accordingly . |
| 23 | They are hesitant about calling their sense of vocation as being in any way visionary . |
| 24 | Yet it would be dangerous to regard such divisions as being in any way rigid . |
| 25 | So the principles can not be regarded as being in any doubt . |
| 26 | She now leant across the counter and , poking her face down to the child 's , she said , ‘ No , I did n't Bobbie , because if I had you would n't have got half as much as is in that bag . |
| 27 | 10.7.1 Subject to due performance of its obligations hereunder each Party shall be entitled , subject to reimbursement of the costs of collation reproduction and delivery , to receive copies of all results and of such background technical information of the other Parties as is in each case reasonably necessary for such Party independently to exploit results in the manner specified herein . |